DHC-stagram

The other day, I thought I'd do a hashtag search for #debbiecarlos to see if anyone took any pictures of the posters they purchased and look what popped up! 

Dang guys, you make my prints look good. 

Love seeing them in your homes! Thank you!

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From Beyond

I have seriously been shooting so much lately. I don't think I've shot so many images in such a short amount of time. In the past couple of weeks, I've made three different series (sorry can't show them yet!) + a friend's wedding + a really fun session with my friends' aweseome band Del Mas Alla and bunny! Phew. Above are a few of the many shots we took.

Del Mas Alla is Julio Navaja and Daniel McKee and they make some lovely tunes. Julio also has got a great vintage shop called Solid State Vintage in Pilsen. I definitely have a couple of his shoes and bags on my wish list. And Dan is a talented photographer who I've had the privilege of working with on many occasions.

Listen to their music and like their facebook page here and then go to their show this friday here!

AHC

The new shop is finally open! Go take a look >> > > AHC

Cristal

Just fooling around. Could be something good? Or going in a weird direction? I can't even tell anymore.

Morning Light

View from my desk

Hair

I've been wanting to do something different with my headsuit. I'm growing my hair out so I can get the above george harrison haircut and then maybe a perm on top of that. Thoughts? Concerns?

Almost There

One of the surprising things about opening up a new shop is not so much just making the thing you want to sell but everything that comes with it -- how the shop will look, branding, merchandising, packaging etc. I actually really love this part.

One of the things I really wanted to do was make a stamp with the new shop logo. I shopped around at various stamp-makers' online stores but never really settled on anything or anybody to commission the stamp from. Then a couple of months ago, the nice Margaret of Paper Pastries wrote and asked if I was willing to do a trade with her. I took a look at her store and saw that she sold custom stamps (as well as other super cute pens, pencils and stationary sets) and I thought that this was too perfect. So I sent her a Summer Bounty Poster and she sent me a custom "AHC" stamp.

I've been working on the AHC bags this weekend and I think they are looking great. It has been fun and frustrating figuring out what to sell in the new shop so the sort of mindless busy work of stamping bags has been calming and therapeutic.

And yes that is 24K gold all over my work desk.

Go check out Paper Pastries! And Margaret's blog!

West Elm!

Since the beginning of this year, West Elm has partnered with Etsy to feature some pretty awesome sellers in their catalogs. Each time I get a one, the first thing I do is flip through and see who had been featured. Its always very validating when I see my favorites on there and I have discovered lots of cool people with it too.

I am also excited to tell you that one of my posters had been chosen to appear in their catalogs and it just came out! If you get one of these, look out for it.